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But you cant put the whole population on that. its amazing to me, democrats and a lot of people in d.c. including republicans, i think they think math is a myth. its a vast right-wing conspiracy, they are allergic to math. they dont want to do any of these numbers because it would make everything impossible and it is depressing when you cant pay your bills and you continue to rack up credit card debt, who wants to sit down and crush those numbers? certainly not the politicians in washington but ...

I would sooner make higher math not mandatory at a certain level and have them take it but have what they are taking to be this weird kind of ideological indoctrination that does not actually bear any resemblance to truth. >> dana: i dont know if you ever read a book, a novel called "where did you go, bernadette." i think its being turned into a movie. it is partly about the seattle school systems. its pretty funny in case anybody is out there looking for something to read over the weekend. grea...

Ewi ukrainians to secure domestic political advantage, thats the ball game, whether what trump does obliges the senate to remove him from the presidency will be up to republicans in the senate to decide at the trial that will follow what i think is now inevitable impeachment. the fact that the aid to ukraine has, in fact, gone through despite trumps illegitimate temporary suspension may be the straw the gop will grasp to prevent his conviction in that trial, but thats no defense of trumps action...

Created in the trump administration. that falls short of the pace of jobs created in the same period at the end of the obama administration. the president has taken an already strong economy, a ten-year long economic expansion and has branded it as entirely his own. if democrats want to win in 2020, stlail theyll have to sh their attacks on the trump economy. >> maybe they can change their math and start taking credit for the past ten years as well. new developments in the college admissions s...

That i cant solve. >> greg: have you officially outwiloutwillard. you are now a performance artist. [laughter] >> greg: yuan, there ison, thers nothing less colored blind that i math. start putting social justice philosophy into math whats going to happen. >> juan: if we accept the premise that white kids, brown kids all have the same potential intellectually geez, look at the standardized test scores, black and brown kids perform less well. i think you have a situation where thats not good and ...

Dana. i was so good in math until i got to the hard stuff and then it was like it made me feel so low. >> dana: i remember a day that we started doing fractions and i was in fourth grade. always like the best student. i was like wait, what did she just say? and i remember, and especially for women, young girls right, they always say im not good in math. we have spent decades saying no, everybody has the same potential. and i was mentioning in the commercial break i love the movie hidden figures ...

We are killing it. at least a ceilings public schools are trying. the district wants to rehumanize math because absolutes are emblematic of oppression. according to reason.com. they are proposing a new social justice up fused curriculum that would focus on quote power and oppression within math. fine. i mean, does 2 plus 2 really equal 4 or does 2 plus 2 equal white privilege? by the way that plus sign looks like a cross, a violation of the separation between church and state. but who needs hard...

Ideologies dictated by useless grad students who cant read or write the world stops working. the wings on your plane may start flapping and the tires on your car may start believing in a flat earth. engineers and mathematicians keep us moving. once the workplace becomes the woke place, how will you get to your gender studies class then? by the way, jesse, this is just a proposal i dont know if its going to happen. im doing my best to stop it as a lone voice in the heroic wilderness. >> jesse: im...

Improve what we know is potential thats untapped in terms of minority kids and what they call the stem subjects and science. >> greg: yeah. >> juan: okay. i think its a good idea, greg. >> greg: what do you think, day began, if thats your real name? >> dagen: how do you level the playing field injecting judgment and opinion into mathematics which by its own nature is objective. not subjective. >> juan: not there. >> dagen: whats not there is good teachers and better education. again, we rank 30 ...

Raise a lot of money is a big, big challenge with over a year to go. >> okay. in the 2018 midterms on the house side, suburban moderates, particularly women, really helped turn a lot of those swing districts. and i know the geography and the math for house, different from the senate. but how key is that voting bloc when we look at the senate races in 2020? >> huge voting bloc, jim. arizona is a state that used to be very republican. democrats picked it up and then they picked up the senate seat ...